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This book charts how the cartographies of American literature as an institutional category have varied radically across different times and places. Arguing that American literature was consolidated as a distinctively nationalist entity only in the wake of the U.S. Civil War, Paul Giles identifies this formation as extending until the beginning of the Reagan presidency in 1981. He contrasts this with the more amorphous boundaries of American culture in the eighteenth century, and with ways in which conditions of globalization at the turn of the twenty-first century have reconfigured the parameters of the subject. In light of these fluctuating conceptions of space, Giles suggests new ways of understanding the shifting territory of American literary history. ranging from Cotton Mather to David Foster Wallace, and from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to Zora Neale Hurston. Giles considers why European medievalism and Native American prehistory were crucial to classic nineteenth-century authors such as Emerson, Hawthorne, and Melville. He discusses how twentieth-century technological innovations, such as air travel, affected representations of the national domain in the texts of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Gertrude Stein. And he analyzes how regional projections of the South and the Pacific Northwest helped to shape the work of writers such as William Gilmore Simms, José Martí, Elizabeth Bishop, and William Gibson. Bringing together literary analysis, political history, and cultural geography,The Global Remapping of American Literaturereorients the subject for the transnational era.

The Body Economic revises the intellectual history of nineteenth-century Britain by demonstrating that political economists and the writers who often presented themselves as their literary antagonists actually held most of their basic social assumptions in common. Catherine Gallagher demonstrates that political economists and their Romantic and early-Victorian critics jointly relocated the idea of value from the realm of transcendent spirituality to that of organic \"life,\" making human sensations--especially pleasure and pain--the sources and signs of that value. Classical political economy, this book shows, was not a mechanical ideology but a form of nineteenth-century organicism, which put the body and its feelings at the center of its theories, and neoclassical economics built itself even more self-consciously on physiological premises. The Body Economic explains how these shared views of life, death, and sensation helped shape and were modified by the two most important Victorian novelists: Charles Dickens and George Eliot. It reveals how political economists interacted crucially with the life sciences of the nineteenth century--especially with psychophysiology and anthropology--producing the intellectual world that nurtured not only George Eliot's realism but also turn-of-the-century literary modernism.

Les bouleversements induits par le handicap acquis chez l’adulte nécessitent une reconstruction du sujet. La coprésence des modes de traitement du corps (médical, traditionnel ou culturel) est envisagée. L’article cherche à comprendre le retentissement psychique des mécanismes culturels de traitement du corps. Huit entretiens cliniques réalisés auprès de quatre hommes rencontrés au CNRPH à Yaoundé montrent que la prise en charge par la culture va de l’aspect rituel pour s’étayer aux soins psychiques. La figure, le cadre culturel du soin et l’effet de la coprésence des types de soins sont à reconsidérer afin de rendre possible la restructuration psychique du sujet. The upheavals induced by acquired disability in adults require reconstruction of the subject. The co-presence of body treatment methods (medical, traditional or cultural) is envisaged. The article seeks to understand the psychic impact of cultural mechanisms of body treatment. Eight clinical interviews carried out with four men met at the CNRPH in Yaoundé show that, the cultural body treatment can be considered as a care which goes beyond the ritual aspect to shore on a psychic care. The figure, the cultural therapeutic framework and the effect of the co-presence of the types of care must be reconsidered in order to make possible the subject’s psychic restructuring.

Raymond Williams’ major contributions to intellectual progress are usually categorised within cultural theory, media studies or neo-Marxist studies. Serious analysis of his contributions to education as a field of practice as well as a field of study have been relatively neglected. This is the first book to redress that omission, focusing on how his writing and thought have helped us to understand education in Britain and also provide analytical tools that have helped to shape educational studies in the USA and internationally. Ian Menter draws on Williams’ several novels, including Border Country, as well as on his seminal contributions to cultural theory, including Culture and Society, The Long Revolution, Keywords and Marxism and Literature. Menter also examines how Williams’ life shaped his understanding of education including his early involvement in adult education and his deeply ambivalent relationship with the academy. Public education is positioned as a key arena of social struggle where decisions shaping the nature of our futures and crucial to creating a democratic and just society. The book includes a foreword by Michael Apple who is John Boscom Professor Emeritus of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA, which makes reference to the importance of Williams’ work in relation to education in the USA.

Round Trip to Hades in the Eastern Mediterranean Tradition explores the theme of visits to the underworld in the ancient Greek and Byzantine traditions from a broad perspective including written sources, iconography and archaeology.

Fernand Dumont et la Philosophie de l'histoire (Québec, Les Presses de l'Université Laval, 2017), 270 p. Dans cet ouvrage, l'historien et professeur a l'Université du Québec a Rimouski (UQAR) Julien Goyette cherche a combler ce qu'il perçoit comme un « défaut »» dans les études consacrées a Dumont, soit d'inter préter son œuvre dans sa totalité pour « penser ensemble la théorie de la culture de Dumont, sa conception de l'histoire, son épistémologie des sciences humaines et sa philosophie politique » (p. 4). Dans le chapitre 7, l'auteur s'arrete sur la notion de « société éthique » et soutient que Dumont, en réfléchissant aux liens entre mémoire, identité et participation politique, dégage les conditions du vouloir-vivre collectif dans le contexte de la crise de la culture moderne qui est a la fois explication et aboutissement de l'histoire chez le sociologue. Il serait facile, pour ne pas dire de mauvaise foi, de reprocher a Goyette de n'avoir pas suffisamment mis en relation les réflexions de Dumont avec leur contexte de production ou avec la trajectoire personnelle et institutionnelle du sociologue.

CaShawn Thompson crafted Black Girls Are Magic as a proclamation of Black women's resilience in 2013. Less than five years later, it had been repurposed as a gateway to an attractive niche market. Branding Black Womanhood: Media Citizenship from Black Power to Black Girl Magic examines the commercial infrastructure that absorbed Thompson's mantra. While the terminology may have changed over the years, mainstream brands and mass media companies have consistently sought to acknowledge Black women's possession of a distinct magic or power when it suits their profit agendas. Beginning with the inception of the Essence brand in the late 1960s, Timeka N. Tounsel examines the individuals and institutions that have reconfigured Black women's empowerment as a business enterprise. Ultimately, these commercial gatekeepers have constructed an image economy that operates as both a sacred space for Black women and an easy hunting ground for their dollars.